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Something In The Air

by Eric Butterfield

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1.
Blink 04:42
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Blink ©2021 Eric Butterfield/Red Dirt Ditties (BMI) Took a summer drive to the record store Licking ice cream, she says she's bored Her high cut shorts pushing blood to my brain Her father thinks she's sweet sixteen Her fake ID's teasing broken dreams Everybody knows fast living ain't free She's home alone, mother left the scene Dad wears skin-tight designer jeans Says if I touch his baby, I'm dead L.A. freeway, don't blink Stole your daddy's car with the hidden keys Unlocked the glove box, hit your bare knees Is that pistol loaded? What's his name? Don't preach, she cried, at the clinic door I can turn the screw, if you want war Everybody knows fast living ain't free L.A. freeway Chorus: L.A. freeway, don't blink, summer fades L.A. freeway, don't blink, summer fades L.A. freeway, don't blink, don't blink At the Fashion Island shopping mall She bought a crucifix to forget all about it But her secret had escaped I was working down at the KFC When her dad stormed in, said, you're dead meat I know what you've done and where you've been Thought I'd die right there in the chicken grease Swearing to god it wasn't me He works down at the karaoke bar Her dad jumped in his muscle car Burning rubber on the melting tar Swearing to god that boy will sing Look at the fake ID, she's just sixteen Hey, man, don't shoot, it wasn't me Chorus: L.A. freeway, don't blink, summer fades L.A. freeway, don't blink, get away L.A. freeway, don't blink, summer fades Bridge: Keep your hands where I can see them, don't move too fast Summer love, it's open season The prophet of suburbia has spoken Chorus: L.A. freeway, don't blink, summer fades L.A. freeway, don't blink, get away L.A. freeway, don't blink, summer fades L.A. freeway, don't blink, don't blink Sweet sixteen
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She's in Love with Me Now 03:52
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She's In Love With Me Now ©2019 Eric Butterfield/Red Dirt Ditties (BMI) I set the table with candlelight, to tell her she's my love Sun setting, the moment right, ocean crashing below Is she shaking like I'm shaking? Can she see I rehearsed so many times? It don't matter now, I see it in her eyes Chorus: She's in love with me now She's in love with me now She drags me to a party, and I don't know a soul I'm shaking hands with a man she once loved bad, bad like a chemical She pulls me hand in hand to show everybody she's OK If I was just her prop, her eyes would tell me so Chorus: She's in love with me now She's in love with me now She's in love Just one night at a time Just one night at a time She loves the magic of candlelight, but maybe I move too fast Something in her eyes looks like a shadow from her past Is she shaking when I say I need you bad and it's chemical? Need you now, need you today, not talking about tomorrow Chorus: She's in love with me now She's in love with me now She's in love with me, and right now's what I need She's in love with me now, in love with me now, in love with me
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Love Sick 04:11
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Love Sick ©2018 Eric Butterfield/Red Dirt Ditties (BMI) 737 take me back to you Turn this plane around Long-distance love ain't fair, girl I gotta kiss the ground I can't wait, I can't wait You know I need to see you again Hold on tight, snow's falling tonight I think this plane is going down Long-distance love ain't fair Chorus: I'm feeling love sick I'm feeling love sick I wrote it down on this paper bag A modern woman's got a wicked spell Her hungry eyes wear no disguise Turning believers into infidels I'm too high, I'm too high on you I'm yelling but there's no sound Will you write? My knuckles gone white I think our love is going down I need a shot of your love I need another shot of your love Chorus: I'm feeling love sick I'm feeling love sick Is it love? Is it love? Is it love? Is it love I'm feeling? Is it love? Is it love? Is it love? Is this love I'm feeling? They landed the plane 'cause there's ice on the wings Why don't you answer my call? Don't know where you are Do you think I'm dead? I'm killing time in an airport bar Hey, bartender You know what I need I need another Another shot of her love Another shot of her love I need another shot Another shot of her love Chorus: Is it love? Is it love? Is it love? Is it love I'm feeling? Is it love? Is it love? Is it love? Is it love I'm feeling? 737 737 737 take me back to you I'm feeling love sick I'm feeling love sick You're like a dying man's last meal I'm feeling love sick Feeling love sick Is it love? Is it love I'm feeling?
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Pictures Are Evil 04:48
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Pictures Are Evil ©2021 Eric Butterfield/Red Dirt Ditties (BMI) It's only been a dozen days, feels like forever The apartment's new, no furniture, twisted blinds Funny how your picture can drive me half insane Your cheeky smile in a pile of pictures on the floor, no longer in their frame Been staring at the walls for days, nothing hangs there Found myself picking your pictures out of the fireplace We danced like moonstruck fools, skipping as church bells sang Back then I knew what's in your heart, now the phone won't ring Chorus: Pictures are evil Told a truth to a stranger, told lies to a bottle of rye Time is playing stupid games I'm losing and don't know why Funny how your clowning smile can drive me half insane Remember your crazy sister setting fire to your mother's drapes? Chorus: Pictures are evil Pictures are evil Bridge: I'm driving round the city all night long, could have been Radio playing empty summer songs There's nowhere to park and I can't sleep Are you sleeping, free to dream? You look like a stranger, familiar but out of place Kissing me on the Berlin Wall in the acetate Are we giving back the wedding gifts? Go tell death we called it quits You and me could do anything back then But no one can turn back time Chorus: Pictures are evil Pictures are evil
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Never Meant to Hurt Nobody 03:02
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Never Meant to Hurt Nobody By Eric Butterfield ©2014 Red Dirt Ditties (BMI) Don't know how that big oak tree got between my headlights Guess I was going a little too fast Girl, I saw you crying on your new boy's shoulder as I blew past Tried to make my run And I guess you'd say that life, it just moved too slow for me I didn't have to break every rule to prove I'm a man But I did, Yes I did No, I didn't have to pick a fight with a man with a wife with a boning knife But I did, Oh, yes, I did And I guess you'd say life for me moved along way too slow Now I wear the scars like I got dragged from Canada to Mexico Life's too damned slow when you've got no real love from nobody Chorus: Never meant to hurt nobody Never meant to hurt no one Never meant to hurt nobody And I guess you'd say that life for me it moved along way too slow Now I wear the scars like I got dragged from Anchorage to Sao Paolo When you run from love you're so stupid Thinking you never ever really hurt nobody Chorus: Never meant to hurt nobody Never meant to hurt no one Never meant to hurt nobody Never No, no, never Maybe once or twice or three or four times Chorus: Never meant to hurt nobody Never meant to hurt no one Never meant to hurt nobody Never meant to hurt nobody
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Me and Jesus Riding the Greyhound 04:59
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Me and Jesus Riding The Greyhound By Eric Butterfield ©2019 Red Dirt Ditties (BMI) I was riding the overnight Greyhound With a sandwich in a paper bag Everybody was sleeping But the man next to me in rags He stared up at the desert stars I said what's your name? He said my name is Jesus and I'm headed for Phoenix Don't know if I'm going to stay I showed him my bottle of water Said I could go for a nice Merlot He gave me a wink, said he could go for a drink But he'd rather have a French Bordeaux You could move a mountain But it would be in vain We lost your love for living We're still killing in your name Chorus: Me and Jesus riding the Greyhound Chasing down the morning sun Everyone sleeping the night away Dreaming of days to come The bus pulled into Phoenix He said, this ain't the place I said you need a TV show And bought him a ticket to L.A. In two month's time I saw a billboard sign Saying the end is near But there's still time, tune in at nine Your savior, he's right here Chorus: Me and Jesus riding the Greyhound Chasing down the morning sun Drinking wine, crucifying time Dreaming of what's to come Cactus in the moonlight like crosses Raising their arms like plaintive sons Me and Jesus riding the Greyhound Dreaming of what's to come, what's to come What's to come of us? What's to come of us? What's to come of us? What's to come of us?
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Rescue Me 04:58
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Rescue Me By Eric Butterfield ©2014 Red Dirt Ditties (BMI) You don't need to tell me I know there's a coming storm Clouds have gathered all around us You don't need me no more All I see is black and red and you standing there With a sharpened sword But I'm not coming for you, my beautiful matador Let me in or let me go Let me in or let me go Love ain't always poetry and song Sing to me Sing to me I don't need to show you You know every wound and scar Tame me, please, Persephone The winter skies are tearing us apart You say let me in or let me go Let me in or let me go Love ain't always poetry and song Sometimes you fight, cry and plead Sometimes you just say, rescue me Rescue me now, why don't you? Rescue me now, why don't you? It's like sages tried to tell us The things you love you'll soon abhor We still threw ourselves together Singing songs of evermore And now we sing Let me in or let me go Let me in or let me go I don't know what happened to our song Sometimes you fight, cry and plead 'Cause love ain't all you need Sometimes you just scream, rescue me Rescue me Tell me girl why don't you? Rescue me Won't you rescue me? Come on and rescue me Tell me girl why don't you? Rescue me
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That Girl 02:32
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That Girl ©2015 Eric Butterfield (BMI) / Red Dirt Ditties (BMI) You see her coming 'round Looking for something to get her feet off the ground And you're standing there, stiff as your hair Spiked up with nothing to say And your heart goes boom Like a canon to the moon And the words you want just won't come [chorus] See that girl, she's the one Darkness, kill the sun No need now to light the way Whisper to me, whoa ah ah oh oh You gotta make it right, can't jump the gun Gotta play it cool, can't be just anyone She's there in the room but your head's on the moon And you fear your rocket won't fly And your heart goes boom Through the silence in the room And you're gonna drop the bomb tonight [chorus] See that girl, she's the one Darkness, kill the sun No need now to light the way Whisper to me, whoa ah ah oh oh [bridge] Moonlight on the water Moonlight on the sea, you in the water Moonlight on the sea Tonight, the night Tonight [chorus] See that girl, she's the one Darkness, will you whoa ah ah oh oh See that girl, she's the one Whisper to me, whoa ah ah oh oh See that girl, she's the one Darkness, will you whoa ah ah oh oh Darkness, will you kill the sun? Whisper to me, whoa ah ah oh oh No need now to light the way Whisper to me, whoa ah ah oh oh See that girl, she's the one
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Boy in a Bubble 03:30
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Boy In A Bubble ©2020 Eric Butterfield/Red Dirt Ditties (BMI) I want to run in the sun Feel the heat and the breeze Yesterday's impossible now I'm looking down on empty streets I want to fly in the empty sky Pigeons on my fire escape won't fly Highways are calling Do you want to drive and drive and drive? chorus: I feel like the boy in a bubble A prisoner staring out a dirty window and there's trouble I never thought the world would look so gray Promise I won't take this life for granted Promise I won't take your love for granted Never again, again, again Never again, again I can't live on canned food any more Can't live on reruns anymore I'm gonna flash the neighbors If you don't come over right now I'm like a volcano Vesuvius, Saint Helens, and Krakatoa Got a Ford Pinto named “Geronimo!” chorus: I feel like the boy in a bubble A prisoner staring out a dirty window and there's trouble I never thought the world would look so gray Where to run? Where you gonna run? Where to run? Where to run? Where to run? chorus: I feel like the boy in a bubble A prisoner staring out a dirty window at trouble I never thought the world would end this way And I'm going to run to you if I ever get out of here
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Bad Love 03:14
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Bad Love By Eric Butterfield ©2022 Red Dirt Ditties (BMI) Is this all there is? Hanging on to love gone cold Swear you're gone Still you keep hanging on Climbed the mountain, heaven's close Dreams get lost, turn to ghosts What is love? Don't know who you're thinking of Chorus: Say no to bad love Say no to bad love Free, set yourself free Climbed this mountain long ago Can't see the top no more Found my way, lost my way Couldn't say what for Careful of forgiveness You can't take it back When broken love repeats itself The forgiver's heart turns black Chorus: Say no to bad love Say no to bad love Free, set yourself free Say no Say no No to bad love No to bad love
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Love Sick (reprise) 03:43
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Love Sick reprise By Eric Butterfield ©2023 Red Dirt Ditties (BMI) 737 take me back to you Turn this plane around Long-distance love ain't fair, girl I gotta kiss the ground I can't wait, no, I can't wait I need to see you again Caught in the clouds, no escape I think this plane's going down Something in the air Wrote it down so I won't forget I'm under your spell Can't touch down, my head in the clouds Is it love I'm feeling? Something in the air Something in the air

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An 11-song journey through the ups and downs of fast cars, fast living, working fast food, and taking a very slow odyssey in a Greyhound bus, "Something In The Air" is about wayward youth and a close call with paying the ultimate price.

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released September 21, 2023

All songs written by Eric Butterfield
©2023 Red Dirt Ditties (BMI)

Produced, mixed and mastered by Eric Butterfield

Eric Butterfield: Vocals, guitars, bass, synths, drums and percussion

Diego Gonzales: Backing vocals on "Blink"

Chanele McG: Backing vocals on "She's in Love with Me Now"

Carys Garvey: Backing vocals on "Me and Jesus Riding the Greyhound"

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I write songs that are personal yet universal. Of late, I've been digging into my early adult life in Los Angeles, where I grew up. I like American stories and tales that paint a picture of modern life. Thank you for listening!

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